Soot May-Happen-in-Parallel Analysis

I got Soot’s “may happen in parallel” (MHP) analysis to work, but only on a very small, completely unrealistic example which I used to test my “shared volatile” code (source below). Even for this, I needed to set the heap size to 2 GB (which, if I remember correctly, won’t work on Windows machines). Anything a little bit bigger either exhausted
memory or caused the JVM garbage collector crash.

They must be horribly inefficient with their static analysis. In one of the theses I read today, the biggest benchmarks had 3,800 lines of code. Maybe I am doing something wrong, because they used 1.5 GB heap, but as of now I have doubts their analysis scales to real applications like DrJava.

Furthermore, Soot’s MHP analysis doesn’t take the event thread into account, but this is probably a smaller issue.